Stourton as a human being since so little has been written about him. While Calvert calls him “an audacious man, a narrow-minded sectary, and a troublesome meddlesome busy-body” and M. F. Howley

York Factory (Man.) to the prairies. On 2 February Henday, camped near Devil’s Pine Creek (Ghostpine Creek, Alta), noted “we are joined by a French Leader named Wappenessew.” Since an Indian, before

probably have succeeded Adams, who died in 1737. Instead, in 1735 he was apparently obliged by circumstances to accept the company’s terms, and he went to Churchill (Man.) as “second.” The post’s location

, business man; baptized 17 March 1666 at Montreal, son of Charles-Joseph d’Ailleboust* Des Muceaux and Catherine

Lescarbot, Aubry was a young man from a good family, who had sailed for New France against the latter’s wishes. With him was another priest, sometimes called the priest of the parish of Port-Royal

, and he shipped for Fort Churchill (Churchill, Man.). Two years later Chief Factor Thomas Stayner described him as “not only skillful in his profession, but industrious, sober and of an amiable

Manning*. By both men he was directed along the path of Christian commitment and public duty. On 8 Aug. 1824 he was baptized by Manning and joined the Cornwallis Baptist Church

life to service in the British military. As a young man he joined the prestigious 1st Foot Guards and was commissioned ensign on 20 Sept. 1799. A promotion to lieutenant on 16 Oct. 1800 carried

Simpson*, who had taken over from Robertson the HBC’s campaign against the NWC in the Athabasca country, noted that “this Outlaw is so callous to every honourable or manly feeling that it is not

The man child (Ottawa, 1930), which deserves renewed attention. Written about 1916, it begins in a fictionalized version of London and area during the 1890s and moves to the trenches of France

; after Pontiac*’s uprising subsided he is believed to have gone to Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.) from Fort Dauphin (Winnipegosis, Man.) and Fort

or Gouin), at the Red River Settlement (Man.), and they may have had a total of 18 children; d. 11 Dec. 1890 at St François Xavier, Man

voyage to North America Henry VII manned and victualled a ship at Bristol, on which Cabot sailed as “chief patron.” It was probably for this ship that payments were made by the king between 22

. As a young man, Robert Brown displayed an inclination for travel. In 1861, at the age of 19, he interrupted his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a prize-winner in

. Most of John Bunn’s early childhood was spent with his family at York Factory (Man.) where his English-born father was employed as a writer by the Hudson’s Bay Company. Whatever uncertainty the death of

Canada the following year. When Champlain went back to France in the autumn of 1609, he left the “worthy man . . . Pierre Chavin” in command of Quebec during his absence, and subsequently

profits. This expedition must have yielded satisfactory results, for the following year Chefdostel took La Roche himself there, and the latter set up on the island an exploration post manned by some 50

–96; Cochrane Street, 1903–7) and at churches in Carbonear (1896–99) and Harbour Grace (1907–8). The historian of Gower Street offers the following portrait of Cowperthwaite: “A man of striking

year he drove off a detachment of Oneidas at Repentigny. He was also the right-hand man of Governor

detachment to be sent to the Red River Settlement (Man.). The Hudson’s Bay Company governor, Sir George Simpson*, had secured these troops for